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Morocco Nigeria Forge ahead with Gas Pipeline Plan

Morocco and Nigeria are moving forwards with their gas pipeline agreed upon in December 2016 during a visit by King Mohammed VI to Abuja. The project featured prominently at a ceremony co-chaired Sunday by King Mohammed VI and Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, arrived earlier in Rabat on a two-day working and friendship visit to Morocco. […]

Libya: Royalists Want UN to Consider Constitutional Monarchy as a Solution

A group of Libyans nostalgic of the country’s past and opposed to Gaddafi loyalists are pushing for the restoration of the 1969 constitution that existed before Muammar Gaddafi’s military coup which put an end to Libya’s monarchy. A conference to rally support to the proposal and draw the attention of the UN Special Mission in […]

As anti-Moroccan sentiment surge, self-defeating calls mount for cutting intercontinental power cable

In the wake of Spain’s self-inflicted migration crisis, analyses underpinned by Moroccophobia spawned in Spanish media. Some suggested Spain should consider cutting or threatening to cut electricity flows through the submarine cables to Morocco as leverage. Such proposals ignore the mutual benefits of the interconnection and risk exposing deeper economic interdependence, energy experts and bilateral […]